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Sunday, October 8, 2017

A good but bad morning, Fly Flatts

                       Fog banks throughout,  the Nab
                                         Low cloud base
                                Wind Turbines fogged out
                                    Clear sky to the south
      Alive with Reed Buntings c 25


                                        2 Tufted in the distance

                                   Stonechats through the fog  7 present.





                   More fog rolling in, time to leave

A good start to the morning with 2 Pinkies >E over the Raggalds Flood at 0700 hrs making me think they were the Cold Edge birds but a later check at the dams found the 2 Pinkies still present.
                                             Fly Flatts looked good until fog banks started to roll over the moor on a strengthening W>5 sometime blanking me completely but mainly just above my head giving no vertical vision. Two Tufted and 3 Canadas were on the water whilst the heather below the west bank was alive with at least 25 Reed Buntings very mobile in and out of the heather and bracken along with 7 Stonechat but all keeping at distance from me appearing and disappearing through the mist.
                                                                 Very frustrating to hear a skein of Whoopers overhead at 0945 hrs but up in the fog. Sounded like around 6 heading >SW or >W.  Shortly afterwards one was reported landing on Ringstone so an obvious move on.
                                                              A small group of 6 Redwing came over >W during a clear period with more reports from Oxenhope and Northowram.
                                                                So a mixed morning with plenty good birds but fog once again spoiling a Sunday morning watch.
No Whoopers on Cold Edge or Mixenden on the way home.
BS